Classical NEG raising : an essay on the syntax of negation

Classical NEG raising : an essay on the syntax of negation / Chris Collins and Paul M. Postal ; foreword by Laurence R. Horn.

This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Chris, 1963-
Other Authors: Postal, Paul Martin, 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Semantics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Foreword: Classical NEG Raising: The First 900 Years
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I Background
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Syntactic Representation of Scope
  • 3 NEG Raising
  • 4 Reversals
  • 5 NEG Raising from Scope Positions
  • 6 Polyadic Quantification
  • 7 NEG Deletion: Case Studies
  • 8 Elements of a General Conception of NEG Deletion
  • 9 Confounding Cases: Strict NPIs and Scope
  • 10 Strict NPIs and Locality
  • II Arguments
  • 11 Islands: Preliminaries
  • 12 Islands: Survey
  • 13 Horn Clauses: Preliminaries
  • 14 Horn Clauses: Negative Inversion
  • 15 Topicalization
  • 16 The Composed Quantifier Argument
  • 17 Parentheticals
  • 18 Never Raising
  • 19 Nonfinite Clauses
  • 20 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Linguistic Inquiry Monographs.

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